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# Yeast Driven

Brewing, Baking, and Beyond

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## Posts

- [Czech Dark Lager is Suddenly Everywhere](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2023/07/03/before-dawn-czech-dark-lager-recipe/) - After the success of my Czech pilsner, I decided to keep the Urkel party rolling with this take on a Czech dark lager—aka tmavé pivo.
- [Lager Lessons: On Attempting to Clone Pilsner Urquell](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2023/05/03/foam-hands-czech-pilsner-recipe/) - Pale lager is one of homebrewing's toughest challenges, but with a few tweaks to my process I've gotten closer than ever before to replicating Europe's best.
- [How I Ended Up Making an Altbier with Deschutes Brewery](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2023/04/12/how-i-ended-up-making-an-altbier-with-deschutes-brewery/) - When an opportunity to brew with one of America's biggest breweries falls in your lap, you take it—even if you don't particularly like the beer you're brewing.
- [Cheers to Wedding Beers: Part 1, Rice Lager](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2022/02/14/wedding-beer-part-1-rice-lager-recipe/) - The first beer at my wedding had to be light and crushable, and it had to go with the Vietnamese-inspired dinner menu. Yep, it could only be a rice lager.
- [A Kölsch Komparison—Two Takes on a Classic Style](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2022/07/01/kolsch-komparison-german-kolsch-recipes/) - Kölsch is an unassumingly beer-flavored beer that flies under the radar—even in Germany. But when it's done well, it's one of my favorite styles.
- [Cheers to Wedding Beers: Part 2, Mosaic Red Ale](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2022/02/14/wedding-beer-part-2-mosaic-red-ale-recipe/) - For the second beer at my wedding, we cooked up something with a little more depth and broad appeal than an IPA: a red ale bursting with berry-forward Mosaic.
- [How to fake an English accent](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/01/04/fake-english-accent-kveik-pale-mild/) - The English pale mild doesn't exist anymore in the wild, which means no one will mind me messing with it a bit.
- [The Curious Case of the Two Two Hearted Ales](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2022/01/31/bells-two-hearted-ale-clone-recipe-double-bypass/) - There are few craft beers as iconic as Bell's Two Hearted Ale. That makes it as good a homebrew cloning challenge as any. Here's how I fared.
- [Another lager lesson: Schwarzbier](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/12/24/black-phillip-schwarzbier-recipe/) - My lager education continues with the easy-to-describe, hard-to-perfect schwarzbier. It's just a "black beer!" How hard could it really be?
- [Permanent Midnight Tasting 2021: Still My Best](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/12/26/permanent-midnight-barrel-aged-stout-tasting-2021/) - Three years from brewing, this decadent coconut-vanilla barrel-aged stout remains my Everest.
- [Seasonally Appropriate Drinking: Fresh Hop Amber Ale](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/11/15/bine-to-beer-fresh-hop-amber-ale-recipe/) - I don't love amber ales. But I do love fresh hop beers. Could a fresh hop amber ale with homegrown Cashmere help me love this boring-ass style?
- [Seasonally Appropriate Drinking: Festbier](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/10/28/fest-dressed-german-festbier-recipe/) - When the leaves start to turn and there's a nip in the air, there's only one beer that's seasonally appropriate: German festbier. Here's my take on a classic.
- [Tasting: Permanent Midnight BBA Stout w/ Coconut & Vanilla](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2020/01/08/permanent-midnight-bba-pastry-stout-coconut-vanilla-tasting/) - A year after brewing, this big bruiser of a pastry stout is tasting fine—like a liquid Mounds bar.
- [Brewing a Century: 100 Club Brett IPA](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/10/13/100-club-brett-ipa/) - For my 100th brew, I tackled a style I'd always been a little afraid of, worked on my patience, and found that there's always more to learn in this hobby.
- [Saison Season 2021, Part 2: Le Lumière Ambrée](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/10/10/amber-brett-saison-omega-c2c-farmhouse/) - After bottling my rustic brett saison with Omega C2C Farmhouse, I decided to go in a darker direction, pitching a malty amber wort right onto the yeast cake.
- [Lazy haze.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/03/24/lazy-haze/) - Can you brew a great New England IPA using only DME, whirlpool and dry hops, and dry yeast? And oh yeah, can you do so while skipping the boil? Yes you can.
- [What if pils, but West Coast?](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/02/27/west-coast-mosaic-pilsner/) - What if you took a classic Czech or German pilsner and dry-hopped the crap out of it? Some of my favorite breweries are doing it, so I thought I would, too.
- [How To: Brew a Kettle Sour](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/01/21/how-to-brew-a-kettle-sour/) - Sour beers can be intimidating for rookie brewers, but they don't have to be. Here's how to make one quickly and safely.
- [Tea time.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/01/16/bia-tra-xanh-vietnamese-green-tea-saison/) - Living in Vietnam broadened my palate and gave me a lot of ideas for beer. Here's one that worked out particularly well.
- [Polygyle party!](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/01/13/permanent-midnight-barrel-aged-stout/) - "Pastry stout" is a term that drives some people crazy and makes others salivate. But if you ask me, if beer wants to be dessert, you should let it be dessert.
- [This one goes down easy.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/01/12/bens-best-bitter-recipe/) - Sometimes brews don't work out the way you expect. But always taste before you dump!
- [Saison Season 2021, Part 1: La Blonde Africaine](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/08/21/la-blonde-africaine-freekeh-saison/) - Saison is one of my all-time favorite styles, but until now Brett saison had been a blind spot in my brewing. This blonde saison with freekeh changed all that.
- [Tasting: Saint Perpetua Barrel-Aged Solera Sour Ale + Dry-Hopped Version](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/03/28/tasting-saint-perpetua-solera-sour-2021/) - After a couple years of patient waiting and aging, I've finally been able to taste the fruits of my solera sour barrel project. All I can say is: worth it!
- [Smoke 'em if you got 'em](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2020/12/11/lionshead-lager-smoked-red-x/) - When you're a homebrewer and a brand-new Traeger falls in your lap, obviously you're going to make a smoked beer. In this case, a smoked red lager.
- [Birra Perfetta](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2020/09/18/birra-perfetta-italian-pilsner-tipopils/) - Italian pilsner: It's not your father's Peroni.
- [What the kveik?](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/09/03/what-the-kveik-opshaug-rye-ipa/) - What if I told you that you could ferment a delicious IPA at 95 degrees Fahrenheit and take it grain to glass in just six days?
- [Do you even yoga, bro?](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/05/02/golden-milk-golden-ale-haldi-doodh-beer/) - Sometimes you just get the urge to turn your favorite breakfast into a beer. Does it always work out? No, not really.
- [Quick Sips: English Dark Mild](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2021/01/09/quick-sips-english-dark-mild/) - Dark beers are often heavy, but not so in the case of this supremely drinkable mild ale—somewhere between a porter and a brown ale, but as moreish as any lager.
- [Breakfast IPA? Breakfast IPA!](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2020/07/21/toasted-coconut-cheerios-double-neipa/) - A New England Double IPA made with coconut breakfast cereal? I mean... why not?
- [Vienna in winter.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2020/03/09/vienna-lager-recipe-brulosophy/) - I've said that I don't like to brew straight-ahead beers, but this delicious lager is a great example of why it's worth playing the standards from time to time.
- [Hi, Let's Brew.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/01/12/hi-lets-brew/) - Nice to meet you. I'm Ben. I've been brewing for just under two years now, albeit with a nine-month hiatus when I fucked off to Vietnam to run a third-wave coffee house with my girlfriend. In that time I've racked up more than 20 brew sessions, transitioned from all-extract to partial mash and then to
- [Old gold.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/01/31/old-gold/) - Ever since I first got into homebrewing, I've dreamed of starting a sour solera—a house sour ale that would evolve for years and years. This is the beginning.
- [C'eci n'est pas un bière de cacao.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/06/29/saison-du-cacao-grisette-maranon-canyon-wild-cacao-yeast/) - White Labs' Marañón Canyon Wild Cacao yeast produces "fruity, phenolic, and wild-like" flavors that ought to work well in a grisette with Hallertau Blanc hops.
- [More lemony than lemons.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/07/19/lemon-party-belgian-saison-pale-ale/) - Brewing with herbs is like playing with a live hand grenade: it can blow up in your face. With this last-minute brew, I got lucky.
- [Quick Sips: Jovaru Raw Ale w/ Sorachi Ace](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/09/15/jovaru-alus-raw-ale-sorachi-ace/) - For my first all-grain raw ale, I took some inspiration from Lars Marius Garshol's trip to Lithuania and made a short and shoddy version of a Lithuanian legend.
- [Quick Sips: Belgian Dubbel](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/10/20/averagely-perfect-belgian-dubbel/) - I love Belgian beer, but I've had very little success making anything like my favorite Trappist brews at home. This recipe came closer than most.
- [Qingdao by way of Oslo.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2019/11/16/oslo-kveik-lager-chinese-hops/) - What makes a lager a lager? Is it the yeast? The process? Or is it that familiar lager taste?
- [Irregular coffee.](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2020/01/17/irregular-coffee-imperial-cream-ale/) - What happens when you clone a beer you've never seen, smelled, or tasted? You definitely don't get the same beer. But sometimes you make a good one anyway.
- [Fresh as F**k: Pina Colada Edition](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2020/04/30/fresh-as-fuck-hazy-pale-ale-sabro-mosaic/) - My first attempt at a hazy pale ale: using unmalted wheat, London III yeast, and Sabro and Mosaic hops in ridiculous quantities.
- [It's saison season!](https://www.yeastdriven.com/2020/07/12/fruit-basket-saison-huell-melon-hallertau-blanc/) - The first saison of summer is an easy-drinking, ultra-fruity beer thanks to liberal whirlpool and dry-hop additions of Hallertau Blanc and Huell Melon.

## Pages

- [Gear I Recommend](https://www.yeastdriven.com/gear-i-recommend/) - This is stuff I use on the regular and feel comfortable endorsing. Please note that as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
- [My Recipes](https://www.yeastdriven.com/homebrew-recipes/) - A collection of the homebrew recipes I've posted, broken down by category.
- [About Me](https://www.yeastdriven.com/contact/) - Hi, I'm Ben. I've been homebrewing on a regular basis since just after a certain election in 2016, minus a roughly year-long break when I moved to Vietnam to run a coffee shop and AirBnb with my wife. (Though I did manage to sneak in a batch while living in Da Nang.) I brew way
- [How-To](https://www.yeastdriven.com/how-to/) - This is a collection of instructional guides on basic and semi-advanced brewing techniques. The goal of these posts is to provide quick, concise explanations of methods and ideas that newbie brewers may find confusing. Sour Beers How to brew a kettle sour

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://www.yeastdriven.com/category/uncategorized/)
- [English Beer](https://www.yeastdriven.com/category/english-beer/)
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- [German Beer](https://www.yeastdriven.com/category/german-beer/)
- [Sour Beer](https://www.yeastdriven.com/category/sour-beer/)
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- [esb](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/esb/)
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- [mild](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/mild/)
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- [mixed culture beer](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/mixed-culture-beer/)
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- [cream ale](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/cream-ale/)
- [saison](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/saison/)
- [ipa](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/ipa/)
- [german lager](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/german-lager/)
- [lager](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/lager/)
- [festbier](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/festbier/)
- [oktoberfest](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/oktoberfest/)
- [beer recipe](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/beer-recipe/)
- [fresh hops](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/fresh-hops/)
- [amber ale](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/amber-ale/)
- [schwarzbier](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/schwarzbier/)
- [barrel-aged stout](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/barrel-aged-stout/)
- [bba stout](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/bba-stout/)
- [two hearted ale](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/two-hearted-ale/)
- [bell's brewery](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/bells-brewery/)
- [wedding](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/wedding/)
- [red ale](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/red-ale/)
- [irish red ale](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/irish-red-ale/)
- [guest post](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/guest-post/)
- [rice lager](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/rice-lager/)
- [german beer](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/german-beer/)
- [kolsch](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/kolsch/)
- [ale](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/ale/)
- [czech beer](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/czech-beer/)
- [czech lager](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/czech-lager/)
- [czech pilsner](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/czech-pilsner/)
- [saaz hops](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/saaz-hops/)
- [czech dark lager](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/czech-dark-lager/)
- [craft beer](https://www.yeastdriven.com/tag/craft-beer/)

## Beer Styles

- [Saison](https://www.yeastdriven.com/beer-style/saison/)